Debugging

There are multiple ways in which to configure your AEA for debugging during development. We focus on the standard Python approach here.

Using pdb stdlib

You can add a debugger anywhere in your code:

import pdb; pdb.set_trace()

Then simply run you AEA with the --skip-consistency-check mode:

aea -s run

For more guidance on how to use pdb check out the documentation.

Using an IDE:

• For VSCode modify the launch.json to include the following information:

{
    "version": "0.2.0",
    "configurations": [
        {
            "name": "aea run",
            "type": "python",
            "request": "launch",
            "program": "PATH_TO_VIRTUAL_ENV/bin/aea",
            "args": ["-v","DEBUG","--skip-consistency-check","run"],
            "cwd": "CWD",
            "console": "integratedTerminal"
        }
    ]
}

where PATH_TO_VIRTUAL_ENV should be replaced with the path to the virtual environment and CWD with the working directory for the agent to debug (where the aea-config.yaml file is).